Growth of Super-Massive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei
Growth of Super-Massive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 29th October 2021
- Speaker: Francoise Combes (Paris Observatory/ Collège de France)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
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Black holes and galaxies appear to grow in symbiosis. Non-axisymmetric features like bars, and even several embedded density waves in galaxies are necessary to exchange angular momentum and drive the gas to feed the nucleus, Feedback regulates star formation, and can be of radiative or kinetic modes in origin. Gas outflows are energy-driven at the beginning and may become momentum driven, with lower efficiency. If the regulation appears to work quite well in galaxy clusters to regulate cooling flows, it is still debated in individual galaxies.
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